I was invited to speak at the Grinnell Rotary Club tonight by Lowell Bunger, a member of the Community Garden this season. As a kid, Rotary Club was one of those anonymous community organizations that I knew from the logo I saw on signs and held events at the firehouse. Now that I'm working on projects like the Community Garden, I realize the value of service clubs like the Rotary Club and how they help to bring together people from around the community on a regular basis. I presented about Imagine Grinnell, my Americorps program, and the Community Garden, starting with its beginnings in 2009 and going through what we hope to accomplish this coming year.
I asked the Rotary Club to sponsor the use of two plots by low-income families/individuals or students so that we can make becoming a garden member as accesible as possible and to also sponsor the construction of three new beds to be used by different youth groups in a Junior Master Gardener program next season.
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